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24 alternatives to Useful scripts and environment setup for coding in VPS

:small_airplane: My coding environments. . Contribute to crisdosaygo/environments development by creating an account on GitHub.

This is a collection of scripts and environment configuration tools designed to help developers set up and manage coding environments on virtual private servers. It provides automation and utilities for common VPS… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Useful scripts and environment setup for coding in VPS launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Bare metal to production ready in mins; your own fly server on your VPS. - MightyMoud/sidekick

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Airplane▲488

    Quickly transform scripts, SQL, and more into internal tools

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    ServBay▲399

    Hello HN, I’m one of the creators of ServBay. I built this because I got tired of the cognitive load required just to start coding. On my Mac, it was a fragile mix of Homebrew services and asdf conflicts. On Windows, managing PATH variables and fighting with Docker Desktop's resource usage was equally frustrating. I missed the simplicity of the MAMP/XAMPP era, but I needed to support modern stacks (Go, Rust, Node, etc.). What it is: ServBay is a native local development environment for both macOS and Windows. It is not a wrapper around Docker or VMs. It bundles everything you need into…

    2024 · servbay.com · its alternatives →

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    Your very own offline-first privacy-centric open-source data-center! https://homelabos.com/

    2018 · gitlab.com · its alternatives →

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    Seamless dev environments for Kubernetes. Contribute to lapce/lapdev development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    This script will help with the quick setup and installation of tools and applications for new developers at Vendasta. - vendasta/setup-new-computer-script

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Web environment for custom code internal tools

    2023 · fluidspace.app · its alternatives →

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    Cockpit▲99

    Transform your VPS into a powerful desktop-like interface

    Mar 2026 · cockpit.run · its alternatives →

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    Global CDN, zero config TLS, free custom domains

    2023 · webapp.io · its alternatives →

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    Boxes.devfree tier, from $19/mo▲112

    Hi HN, we’re Nick and Drew, and we’re building boxes.dev – the first cloud-only agentic dev environment (ADE) that gives every Codex and Claude Code agent its own cloud computer. We’re two engineers who previously built Gem (co-founder/CTO and first hire), and we spent the last year coding almost exclusively using Codex and Claude Code. It’s been a huge change to how we code, and it’s been exhilarating seeing the models keep getting better – but we eventually realized that developing on localhost was holding us back: - Git worktrees are clunky to set up and use for parallelizing work -…

    Jun 2026 · boxes.dev · its alternatives →

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    Remote execution made easy. Contribute to run-rx/rx development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A cost-effective way to auto-deploy code from Pull Requests to a live temporal url, containers supported but they are no required.

    2023 · codepreview.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, As most of you (I think?), I cannot learn something without having a project, on the side, to implement what I’ve just learned. Recode is the project that I've used to learn Go. It lets you create a development environment in your cloud provider account easily. You can think of it as a desktop version of Gitpod / Coder / GitHub Codespaces less polished and with less features but 100% free and open-source. At the time of writing, it only works with Visual Studio Code and AWS. In order to let you configure your development environments easily, I’ve chosen to use Docker with…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Install VPS Servers for web development with control panel.

    2022 · xvps.io · its alternatives →

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    Secure environments for developers and their agents - coder/coder

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    There are plenty of ways to deploy your apps. PaaS options like Vercel or Netlify are convenient but can get pricey as projects scale. VPS hosting is cheaper, but setting it up (Linux, networking, SSL, etc.) can be daunting. That’s why glueh-wyy-huet (https://github.com/glueh-wyy-huet) and I (https://github.com/biersoeckli) built QuickStack during our bachelor studies at Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences. QuickStack simplifies deployment by letting you deploy directly from a Git repo or Docker registry to any VPS. It’s free, open source, and…

    2025 · quickstack.dev · its alternatives →

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    Self-hosted control plane for your fleet of coding agents

    Aug 2026 · sagewright.dev · its alternatives →

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    Some installation scripts for Ubuntu 14.04. Contribute to drkarl/install-scripts development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Now that I have your attention (“Don’t you dare version control environment files!!”, “This can’t be safe.”) and before you tear me and my project to shreds, please allow me to take a moment to celebrate something small but meaningful: I’ve finally released a thing. Thank you. Motivation tl;dr: The existing tools and libraries for versioning and syncing environment files / secrets across team members and CI machines just didn’t cut it for me. So, I set out to create my own solution — one finally checks all my boxes. So what is places-env? (I encourage you to check the readme…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Environment variables storage and team sharing

    2024 · its alternatives →

  23. 23LA

    Hello HN, I am building a devtool to understand existing codebases. The idea originates from my time at big tech as well as various attempts to get involved in open source projects. When I was in college I wanted to improve my coding skills by contributing to opensource projects. I would pickup a bug or feature request but I always found myself stuck at the very first step. I did not understood where and how to begin contributing. I once submitted a patch in firefox which was labeled "Good first issue" but that was still very handheld. The assigner told me exactly which files I need to…

    2024 · lucidcode.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I'm Vamsi, the founder of Plane(A simple, extensible, open source project and product management tool). Today, I’m here to share our journey with you all. It all started when we identified some of the most frustrating elements for teams when managing projects, especially with tools that force users to learn complex frameworks. We wanted to create something that was intuitive and easy to use. That's how Plane was born! We first open-sourced Plane back in November 2022, and the response was great. But it wasn't until we announced Plane on Reddit in April that we saw an incredible surge…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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